The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 45
‘Go to the gallery, take the staircase which is on the left, and in the second room on the first story you will find another closet with my skirt.
Who acts: you, staircase · What happens: go, take, be, find · To what, where: gallery, staircase, left, closet, second room
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, staircase), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 gallery | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gallery | det |
| 5 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 staircase | det |
| 9 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 left | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | cop |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 left | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 left | det |
| 14 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 find | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 room | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 room | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 room | amod |
| 20 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 find | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 story | amod |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 room | nmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | conj |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 closet | det |
| 29 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 find | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 skirt | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 skirt | nmod:poss |
| 32 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 closet | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the gallery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gallery=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | the staircase | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the staircase | the left | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | future | you | another closet | the second room on the first story | with my skirt | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent closet=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/45/